I hope we can reach consensus in this round and then be able to posta final version for .31 inclusion.

changes since v4:- new feature: uevent report (and collect various states for that)- early kill cleanups- remove unnecessary code in __do_fault()- fix compile error when feature not enabled- fix kernel oops when invalid pfn is feed to corrupt-pfn- make tasklist_lock/anon_vma locking order straight- use the safer invalidate page for possible metadata pages

---Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors(``MCA recovery''). This requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned",kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future.

This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM.

To quote the overview comment:

* High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache * failure. * * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead * when that happens another machine check will happen. * * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the * error handling takes potentially a long time. * * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected * to be rare we hope we can get away with this.

The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c,a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisonedpages.

The main target right now is KVM guests, but it works for all kindsof applications.

For the KVM use there was need for a new signal type so thatKVM can inject the machine check into the guest with the properaddress. This in theory allows other applications to handlememory failures too. The expection is that near all applicationswon't do that, but some very specialized ones might.

This is not fully complete yet, in particular there are still waysto access poison through various ways (crash dump, /proc/kcore etc.)that need to be plugged too.Also undoubtedly the high level handler still has bugs and casesit cannot recover from. For example nonlinear mappings deadlock right nowand a few other cases lose references. Huge pages are not supportedyet. Any additional testing, reviewing etc. welcome.

The patch series requires the earlier x86 MCE feature series for the x86specific action optional part. The code can be tested without the x86 specificpart using the injector, this only requires to enable the Kconfig entrymanually in some Kconfig file (by default it is implicitely enabledby the architecture)

v2: Lots of smaller changes in the series based on review feedback.Rename Poison to HWPoison after akpm's request.A new pfn based injector based on feedback.A lot of improvements mostly from Fengguang WuSee comments in the individual patches.v3: Various updates, see changelogs in individual patches.v4: Various updates, see changelogs in individual patches.v5: add uevent notification and some cleanups/fixes.